The Hackers

BBC Radio 4

Gabriella Coleman, a digital anthropologist most famous for her work with the Hacktivist collective Anonymous, interviews the most influential actors in each era of the evolution of hacking culture from the 1970s to the present day, unveiling how they have moulded the digital world, pop culture and global politics.

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The Hackers

Episodes (11)

Jun 1, 2023 Introducing Fever: The Hunt for Covid’s Origin
Dec 20, 2021 Broken
Dec 20, 2021 Wetware

The Hackers

Jun 1, 2023
2¼ minutes
2 MB

Cover-ups, coincidences, and conspiracy theories: where did Covid come from? John Sudworth was the BBC's China correspondent when an unexplained pneumonia started worrying Wuhan doctors in December 2019. Since then, he's been investigating the origin of the virus that would turn into a devastating global pandemic. From the beginning, there have been claims of certainty. Many scientists say the virus that causes Covid came from nature - probably carried from bats to other animals, and then to humans in a Wuhan market. But an alternative possibility - that it leaked from a laboratory - has refused to go away. And other...

The Hackers

Introducing Fever: The Hunt for Covid’s Origin

BBC Radio 4

00:00 -02:18